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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Will Ultra High Temps Cause Trouble For Competitiors?

There has been a lot of weird weather in the last 12 months and it doesn’t seem to be getting any less crazy. With heat waves and storm fronts moving all over the country, you are seeing areas...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our First Day 2 Racing Gallery from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We’ve got Buckeye Skip’s drag and drive photos right here! We already shared photos from Day #1’s checkpoints and racing, but now it is time for Day #2...

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The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! Swap Meet And Car Show Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

Here’s our second gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest...

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More FJ40 Custom Fabrication! This Beast Gets An ECM Install, Branik Links, Custom Cooler Mounts, and A Stereo Install.

When you start making real headway on a project the jobs get smaller and smaller, but no less significant. Shannon and Jess are back at it on the cool FJ40 project and that means many small things...

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This Is The Ultimate Call Out Challenge! We’re Talking 3,000 Horsepower Diesel Trucks Battling It Out For Bragging Rights And More!

The 2026 Ultimate Callout Challenge was epic. The meanest, nastiest, and most no-holds barred diesel trucks in the country  gathered in Indy to do battle on the dyno rollers, on the drag strip, and...

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Video: The West Coast’s Largest All Ford Truck Show – The F100 Western Nationals 2026 Coverage Starts Here

We figured that if we were going to start sharing our Carlisle Ford Nationals photo coverage today, which is the largest all Ford show in the world, we might as well share the largest classic Ford...

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Barnstormin’: Drag Week Scrambled My Brain and Other Memories From A Great Week On The Road

Oh what a difference eight years makes. Drag Week has certainly come a long way from the quaint little get together it was in 2005 when less than 40 cars pulled out of the now dead Kansas City...

CraigsList Find: A One of None 1988 Caprice Two Door Wagon! Optimistic Pricing Inside!

BangShift reader Rich Hintze tipped us off to this custom built 1988 Caprice wagon for sale on CraigsList. The car is located in North Carolina and it seems as though it may stay there for a while...

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Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Name The Application For This Mechanical Fuel Pump

Yesterday, I had occasion to drop in on my pal Mike Casella who was hard at work in the machine shop at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts. We’ve done some neat stuff with the...

Gallery: The 38th Annual Lyon Farm Car Show – Yorkville, Illinois

(Photos by Greg Rourke) – Grippo was not the only guy pounding the pavement with his camera last weekend, Greg Rourke ventured out to the 38th annual Kendall County Historical Society Lyon Farm...

Gallery: More Great Photos From the Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival – Total Coolness

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – As we said yesterday, Grippo went whole hog at the 2012 Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival with his camera and this is the second of SIX galleries...

Video: The 2012 Engine Masters Challenge Is ON and Comp Cams Is There to Cover The Action! Learn the Ins and Outs Of The Competition Here!

Popular Hot Rodding’s Engine Masters Challenge has become the defacto yearly slugfest for professional and otherwise hardcore engine builders every year. This year the folks at Comp Cams TV are...

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Video: Chasing The Dream: Dick Eytchison Does More With More… Doors That Is…

We’ve been watching Dick Eytchison drive his super cool Crew Cab Chevelle for the last couple years, and if you pulled up next to this thing on Mulholland while driving something Italian,...

Video: Autocross Action From Indy – Watch The Jet Hot Chevy II Get Thrown Around

Nobody on the planet sees more autocross action than we do, but we still love it. When we were at the Indy Goodguys show we thought the course was great, and even drove a rental car around it a few...

Gallery: The Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival – Gallery One

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Our man Joe Grippo attended the first ever Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival last weekend outside of Baltimore at the famed Pimlico Race Course. The...

Gallery: Muscle Cars, Street Machines, and Gassers From Goodguys Columbus

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – We’ve run a ton of Doug Garrison’s photos from the Goodguys Columbus show. If anything it highlights the total diversity of cars and trucks that show up...

Gallery: Classic Ford Hot Rods From Goodguys Columbus – Flatheads to Fat Fenders!

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Since we last left you with a gallery dominated by Tr-Five Chevrolets last week, it only makes sense that we fire a salvo back for the lovers of the blue oval. This...

Not Good: Massive Fire At Methanol and Race Fuel Company In Winnipeg, Canada – Firefighters Battling Blaze

Canada’s fickle relationship with race fuel is getting more heated by the minute…literally. Speedway International, a supplier of racing gasoline and methanol to racers all across North...

Wreckage Video: Watch A 1930 Ford Drag Car Skid, Spin, and Flip at the 2012 Jalopy Showdown

Pal o’ BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian was at Beaver Springs Dragway recently to shoot photos and video of the 2012 Jalopy Showdown nostalgia drags. Being her normal awesome self, she got lots of...

Video: Champion Speed Shop’s Gov.’s Cup Win Puts Them In The Lead Going Into Bakersfield

The Champion Speed Shop Small Block Chevrolet Powered Top Fuel Dragster has done it again! The rolled into the Governor’s Cup race at Sacramento and not only qualified in the top spot, but also...